Daniel Day-Lewis

Unpredictable and famously reserved about his private life to the point of being secluded, actor Daniel Day-Lewis proved time and again his considerable onscreen talents in roles befitting the highly...
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Our Irish eyes are smiling just looking at these guys. Praise be to St. Patrick (or whoever) for these Irish hotties. We wish we were lucky enough to spend St. Patrick’s Day with just one of these dudes from the Emerald Isle. We think it’s fair to say they’re, um, magically delicious.
1. Colin Farrell
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Who wouldn’t want to have a pint with Colin? He’s like the ultimate Irish bad boy.
2. Michael Fassbender
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We’d gladly take him as our lucky charm.
3. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Who needs a pot of gold when you've got him?
4. Jamie Dornan
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More like Fifty Shades of Green, amirite?
5. Daniel Day-Lewis
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Role playing with this guy must be really intense. We’d love to see what DDL is like just being himself at a pub.
6. Liam Neeson
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If you've seen Taken, you know Liam's still got it!
7. Allen Leech
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This Trinity College-trained actor won our hearts, along with Lady Sybil's, in Downton Abbey.
8. Colin O’Donoghue
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We’ve never been so attracted to Captain Hook. Ever since we saw this Irish actor play the Peter Pan villain on Once Upon a Time, we were, um, hooked.
9. Stuart Townsend
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He used to date Charlize Theron. Why she let him go, we'll never know.
10. Pierce Brosnan
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Spending St. Patrick's Day with a former James Bond? Sounds like a rollicking good time!
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What is the craziest thing you ever done for you job? Chances are it has nothing on what these 10 actors did. Acting really attracts people that will go the extra mile to fit whatever role they take on.
1. Jamie Dornan
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This handsome actor had an on-set dominatrix to help coach him during the S&amp;M scenes for Fifty Shades of Grey.
2. Tom Cruise
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The action star got into a disguise and delivered mail to prepare to play an assassin in Collateral.
3. Adrien Brody
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This Academy Award winner lost 30 lbs to physically look like he was going through the Holocaust for The Pianist. He also got rid of all of his worldly possessions (phone, Porsche) and even dumped his girlfriend to be able to relate to his character's loss of everything.
4. Halle Berry
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The beautiful actress didn't shower for a month to get in the mind set of what it's like to be a crack addict for Jungle Fever. She also visited a crack den with a police officer.
5. Robert De Niro
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Talk about dedication! De Niro paid a dentist to grind and stain his teeth to look more like a psychopathic rapist for Cape Fear.
6. Nicholas Cage
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Cage is another actor who went to a dentist for a role, but he had two teeth removed without anesthesia to have believable war injuries for Birdy.
7. Rooney Mara
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The actress got a make over for her edgy role in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but other than a new hair cut she got her nipple pierced and bleached her eyebrows for the role.
8. Daniel Day-Lewis
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The method actor made headlines for being dedicated to his role for Lincoln by doing things like practicing to have a higher-pitched voice. Once he got a hang of the voice he never stopped using it even between takes. He would also stay in character when texting by signing off as "A."
9. Meryl Streep
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The Academy Award winner also worked on linguistics for an Academy Award winning role. She learned how to speak German fluently and with a polish accent for her role in Sophie's Choice.
10. Joaquin Phoenix
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This actor played a version of himself for a mockumentary, I'm Still Here where he leaves acting to become rapper. Part of his role included a very interesting appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Would you do any of these crazy things for a role? Tweet us your answers to the Twitter handles below!
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Actor David Oyelowo felt obligated to keep up his American accent in between takes on Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma, because he feared locals in the civil rights icon's native Atlanta, Georgia would not accept him in the lead role if they knew he was British. The Lee Daniels' The Butler star, who packed on the pounds for the role, reveals he was keen to try the method acting technique on the set of Selma after watching fellow Brit Daniel Day-Lewis in action in their movie Lincoln, but he soon realised it was necessary for him to keep up the American twang to avoid disappointing the hundreds of extras who had no idea he was from overseas.
He explains, "I felt I had to stay in character the whole time, partly because I did this film Lincoln and I had a scene with Daniel Day-Lewis, my favourite actor of all time, and he would stay in character the whole time and I felt that's the blueprint of how to get this right... But he's a genius; I'm a pragmatist.
"We were shooting in Atlanta; Dr. King is from Atlanta, revered in Atlanta... you go and say (in his British accent), 'Hello everybody, I'm going to be playing Dr. King', it's not (going to be) so good when (you have) 500 extras waiting for you to give a speech, so I felt I needed to stay in (the American accent)..."
However, there was one person who couldn't handle hearing Oyelowo speaking with an American accent - his wife Jessica.
He says, "It was weird for my wife because we were moving house at the time and she called me once (while he was on set) about the curtains: 'Should we go for the brown or should we go for (another colour)?'. (In his American accent, he replied), 'Well I think we should, er, go for the...' She went, 'Stop! Stop! We'll do this after you wrap! I cannot talk to you when you are talking like Dr. King, I already feel like I'm having an affair!'."

Actress Emma Thompson will be honoured for her career achievements at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) in December (14). The Saving Mr. Banks actress will receive the Richard Harris Award, named after the late Harry Potter star, for her outstanding contribution to the U.K. film industry.
Thompson says, "I am so delighted to be receiving The Richard Harris Award... It is a very special award, in name of an incredible actor who inspired so many people during his career. I am honoured to follow in the footsteps of my peers who have received this award before me, and look forward to celebrating a fantastic year of British independent filmmaking."
Previous recipients include late actor Bob Hoskins, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Helena Bonham Carter.
Thompson will be handed the prize at a ceremony in London on 7 December (14).

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis was knighted by Prince William on Friday (14Nov14). The Oscar-winning star was honoured at Buckingham Palace in London for his services to drama by the British royal, who took on the investiture ceremony on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Duke of Cambridge dressed in his ceremonial Royal Air Force uniform while Day-Lewis donned a traditional black morning suit.
The notoriously private actor opted against speaking publicly after the service, but insisted he was "entirely amazed and utterly delighted in equal measure" in June (14), when he was named on the monarch's Birthday Honours list.
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is the only man to win the Academy Award for best actor three times - for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.

Actor Eddie Redmayne is to be honoured with the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in California next year (15). The Les Miserables star will be feted for his role as physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything on 3 January (15) at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
Announcing the news on Friday (07Nov14), festival chairman Harold Matzner says, "From The Good Shepherd to Les Miserables, Eddie Redmayne has proven himself an actor poised for greatness. In The Theory of Everything, as ALS-stricken scientist Stephen Hawking, Redmayne captivates his audience as he goes through a powerful physical transformation, from a healthy college student to a dependent wheelchair-bound middle-aged man, in what is truly a stunning performance."
Past recipients of the award include Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis and Matthew McConaughey.

"You have to go undercover for a long time. I worked in Yellowstone (National Park) as a wolf for a while. It got a bit hairy, no pun intended, when I became the alpha. And I realized quickly the other wolves where Christian Bale and Daniel Day-Lewis." Benedict Cumberbatch jokes about method acting for his new role as a wolf in animated film Penguins of Madagascar.

The man who inspired Sir Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-nominated film In The Name Of The Father has died. Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly jailed for a 1974 IRA attack on a pub in England, lost his battle with cancer on Saturday morning (21Jun14) at the age of 60.
Conlon spent 15 years behind bars after he was found guilty of the atrocity in Surrey. He was one of four people who had their convictions overturned in 1989 and he spent the remainder for his life campaigning for inmates he belived to be innocent.
His life story was adapted for the big screen in the 1993 biopic, with Day-Lewis playing Conlon. The star was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his turn in the movie. His co-stars Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite also earned Academy Award nods for their supporting roles, and Jim Sheridan was nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

Angelina Jolie and Daniel Day-Lewis have been recognised by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in her Birthday Honours List. The actress has been named an honorary dame, while fellow Oscar winner Day-Lewis will be knighted.
Jolie learned of the honour in London this week (beg09Jun14), while she was co-hosting an international summit on sexual violence.
She won't be entitled to use her new royal title because she is not a British or Commonwealth citizen, but she joins fellow Americans Steven Spielberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former President Ronald Reagan, who have previously received honorary titles from the Queen.
Among the soldiers, charity heroes, civil servants and entrepreneurs to receive honours, Day-Lewis will be able to add 'Sir' to his name after becoming a knight for "services to drama".
The Lincoln star admits he was, "entirely amazed and utterly delighted in equal measure" to discover he had made the list.
There were also damehoods for Booker Prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, while beloved actress Dame Maggie Smith, who portrays the Dowager Countess of Grantham on TV's Downton Abbey, was made a Companion of Honor, and becomes one of only 65 people "of distinction" in the U.K., and Homeland star Damian Lewis has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
He says, "I decided to do the very un-British thing of accepting the compliment."
Author Hunter Davies, actress Phyllida Law and musician Talvin Singh also received OBEs, while physicist Thomas Kibble and pianist Andra Schiff have been honoured with knighthoods.
Also making the annual honours list is singer and DJ Cerys Matthews and actor John Barrowman, who have both been awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire medals (CBEs).

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Starred in Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"

Played film director Guido Contini in Rob Marshall's musical adaptation of Broadway musical "Nine," which was inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film "8½"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor

Co-starred in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"; first screen pairing with Winona Ryder

Returned acting to star in Scorsese's "Gangs of New York"; earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his performance

Breakthrough screen roles, as a gay punk in "My Beautiful Laundrette" and an Edwardian dandy in "A Room With a View"

Confirmed leading man status as the playboy Tomas in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Starred opposite Winona Ryder in "The Crucible"

Portrayed the 16th U.S. president in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln"

Third film with Jim Sheridan, "The Boxer"

Starred opposite Catherine Keener in "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"; directed and written by wife Rebecca Miller

Landed first stage role in a Sevenoaks production of "Cry, the Beloved Country"

Acted with the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company

Made creen debut at age 13 in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"

Took a leave of absence from acting by putting himself into "semi-retirement"

Played "Hamlet" at the National Theatre in London; withdrew from the play in mid-performance with only seven more shows to go; London papers cited 'nervous exhaustion'

First lead role for British TV, "How Many Miles to Babylon?"

Nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy ("Nine")

Gave award-winning performance as a Texas oilman in Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!

First adult role (bit part) in "Gandhi"

Reteamed with Jim Sheridan for the IRA drama "In the Name of the Father"; nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award

Earned accolades, including a Best Actor Oscar, for his performance as quadriplegic Christy Brown in "My Left Foot"; also first film with director-writer Jim Sheridan

American film debut, starring role in the little-seen "Stars and Bars"

Starred for nine months in the West End production of "Another Country"

Summary

Unpredictable and famously reserved about his private life to the point of being secluded, actor Daniel Day-Lewis proved time and again his considerable onscreen talents in roles befitting the highly complex actor. Though often compared to fellow Brit Laurence Olivier, Day-Lewis instead took his cues from the raw, aggressive loners of 1970s American cinema, namely Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, in adapting a Method-style of acting. After gaining notice with his performances in "My Beautiful Laundrette" (1985) and "The Unbearable Likeness of Being" (1988), Day-Lewis developed a reputation for fully delving into his characters, often to the point of making their experiences his own - like staying in a wheelchair all day and being spoon fed like the real-life Christy Brown, the Irish writer and painter with cerebral palsy, in "My Left Foot" (1989). While he may have learned to track animals to play a frontiersman in "Last of the Mohicans" (1993) and lived in a prison cell to play an accused IRA bomber in "In the Name of the Father" (1993), it was highly doubtful Day-Lewis turned into a savage murderer for his Oscar-nominated turn as Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York" (2002). Nonetheless, Day-Lewis' focus on craft was palpable onscreen - again evidenced in his acclaimed leading performance in "Lincoln" (2012) - earning him yet another Oscar and the respect of all actors for being one of the most deeply committed thespians of his generation.

Born May 19, 1896; Jewish and Baltic; key figure in the history of British cinema; founded Gainsborough Pictures and Bryanston Films; at various times headed Gaumont-British, MGM-British, Ealing and British Lion Pictures; Died 1977 at age 81

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From "My Date With Daniel Day-Lewis" by Spaulding Gray in Elle (February 1988):

SG: So when you're playing a role, are you really entering into this...do you really feel it's another character outside of yourself?

DDL: You undergo a transformation in some respects. You can change your metabolism. You can change the speed of your thoughts. You change the process of your thoughts. You change, if you can, your stance, your movement and so on. I mean, there's no end to the possibilities. Human beings are very, very adaptable. But what goes on at the center is always you.

From "My Date With Daniel Day-Lewis" by Spaulding Gray in Elle (February 1988):

DDL: It's just an illusion. I mean what you're aiming for is to create an illusion for other people. But what you also have to create is an illusion for yourself. An illusion that you cherish.

"No matter how difficult the character, Day-Lewis bestows upon him a gift of empathy, of imaginative understanding. Intellectual analysis has something to do with it but not much. The secret is loyalty. He never wavers in his acceptance of the person he has consented to become. He imposes no theory, he offers no comment, and he never withdraws his affection."

"`I most enjoy the loss of self,' Day-Lewis says, assessing the satisfactions of his work. `That can only be achieved through detailed understanding of another life – not by limping and growing a moustache.'" – from "Risk Taker Supreme" by Matthew Gurewitsch, Connoisseur, December 1989

"Dan has a great advantage over us all because his grandfather ran a studio for 40 years. He not only knows all about the 'star' business, he also probably knows more about this industry than any director. So, his annoyance with stories that he would star in this or that would be that he would never give his word and go back on it. The work is spiritual to Daniel." – director Jim Sheridan to Movieline, December 1993

"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else." – Day-Lewis quoted in EW, Dec. 28, 1993